Halloween Countdown. Case 8: The People in the Photograph

Uncanny

BBC

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🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Every day in October, Danny Robins will release a brand new bite-size tale of terror - real-life ghost stories hand-picked from the Uncanny inbox. Countdown with Danny, and then get ready for some very special Halloween surprises!

Written and presented by Danny Robins Assistant producer and researcher: Lara Monahan Researcher: Nancy Bottomley Editing and sound design: Charlie Brandon-King Music: Evelyn Sykes Theme music by Lanterns on the Lake Production manager: Tam Reynolds Commissioning executive: Paula McDonnell Commissioning editor: Rhian Roberts Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard

A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:07.2	Welcome back to the uncanny Halloween Advent calendar.
0:10.1	Today's story comes from Bex.
0:12.4	She says, Hallo Danny. In the 1990s my father bought a very
0:16.1	old cottage in a village in Northamptonshire. It was in a bad state of disrepair, so my father
0:21.3	and stepmother spent the next four years restoring it.
0:24.0	Soon after, myself, my husband and our four-year-old daughter Georgia went to stay for a weekend.
0:30.0	That night I got up to check in on Georgia.
0:33.0	To find her hiding underneath her blankets absolutely petrified.
0:36.9	She cried, mommy.
0:38.4	I didn't like the man and lady.
0:40.8	She said they peered into her room, smiled at her and then sank into the floor.
0:47.0	The next morning I told my stepmother what had happened and to help calm Georgia, she
0:50.9	asked her to draw the people that she'd seen.
0:53.0	Georgia drew a picture of a lady of a black body and a circle on her head,
0:58.0	and a man with squiggles on his face.
1:00.0	My stepmother said simply, oh my God, she placed on the table an old black and white
1:06.9	photograph of an old-fashioned couple standing in front of the cottage. The man had a
1:11.1	mustache and the lady was dressed in black with a tight bun on her head.
1:16.1	She'd found the photo when clearing the house out. We feel that this couple had real pride in
1:20.8	their beloved home and impressed by what my father had done to it.
1:24.8	Still like to visit every now and then.
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